HotelsMag July-August 2016 | Page 44

Design
The living room of one of the hotel ' s public spaces .
The relaxation area of Serenitas Spa , which offers seasonal treatments and an alpha quartz
sand bed .
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“ Nothing is identical ,” Scott says of the hotel , which opened on June 1 and is about an hour ’ s drive northeast of the Spanish island ’ s capital , Palma .
The heart of the hotel developed and owned by Grupo Cap Vermell , Mallorca , is a piazza , the Plaza de la Torre , with a clock tower that helps orient guests on the 59,800-square-yard ( 50,000-square-meter ) property on the Cap Vermell estate . The design encourages strolling from the guestrooms , among the public buildings , and to the beach , a 10-minute walk away .
“ Like a village where you meander through gardens , parkways and buildings , you move all through the site ” on foot , Scott says . That ’ s another nod to local culture . Many traditional village streets